SPARK | Character design

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Character design explorations for short movie The SPARK @ ZHEE SHEE 2022

Produced by ZHEESHEE
Written and directed: Artem Shcherbakov and Otar Berov
Art Director: Maks Trofimov
Executive producers: Artem Shcherbakov, Aleksei Novikov
Lead Animator: Anton Chistiakov
CG Supervisor: Mikhail Dmitriev
Producer: Evgenia Arkhipova
Directors of Photography: Nail Gaynullov, Maks Trofimov
Concept artists: Maks Trofimov, Maxim Shagovikov, Pavel Vophira, Olga Kononenko, Natalia Chistiakova
Visual development: Maks Trofimov, Olga Kononenko, Artem Kazakhunov, Denis Hebi
Character artists: Alex Korshakov, Robert Kubus, Nikita Veprikov, Vadim Kosarev, Ilya Dyadyura,
Assembly, Lighting and compositing artists: Artem Kazakhunov, Andrey Bibartsev, Nail Gaynullov, Danila Korniltsev, Petr Shkolny
Props artist: Alex Lutai, Alex Korshakov, Ivan Demenkov, Katya Suleymanova, Ivan Podorozhkin
Storyboard artist: Denis Hebi, Olga Kononenko
Costume modeling & dynamics: Alena Kapustina, Sergey Karaulov, Mikhail Dmitriev
Edit: Dmitrii Sebrov, Artem Shcherbakov
Music and Sound-design: Ilia Shibanov
Animation artists: Ekaterina Shvedova, Aleksey Romashov, Alexandra Limina, Vladimir Hakobyan, Liubov Tcimbaliuk, Mariya Kravtsova, Ian Aghavelian, Elena Marchenko, Oleg Zhukov, Jack Stollery
Rigging artists: Oleg Nechaev, Alexander Gushin, Ravshan Gaziev, Alexander Smirnov
Faccial Rigging Artist: Artem Dubina, Ravshan Gaziev
2dfx: Margarita Shalynina, Dasha Skripka, Olga Kononenko
Motion-graphics: Vlad Bratkevich
Previs artists: Nail Gaynullov, Andrey Bibartsev, Alexander Sokolov, Slava Dmitriev
Logo Design and animation: Evgeniy Starov, Alexey Dubnichenko
Titles: Eugene Seleznev

"A young boxer enters the ring. Pressure from the stands, the opponent and fear make him start doubting his abilities and strength"